VOA常速英语:British Firm Creates Novel Way to Recycle Plastic

Places like these are where most of the world’s plastics end up in landfills and a fair amount of it ends up in the world’s oceans.But a new British recycling firm wants it to end up here.
世界上大部分的塑料都像这样最终被埋在垃圾填埋场，相当一部分最终进入海洋。但是英国一家新兴回收公司希望它就此结束。

There is a great demand right now for recycled material.There’s a great deal of interest in getting recycling into the plastics industry specially,and so we are really going to facilitate the ability to get plastic into the circular economy.
现在对再生材料有很大的需求。特别是有很多塑料企业意回收利用，所以我们真的要提高塑料进入循环经济的能力。

The firm called Recycling Technologies is breaking down plastic, then turning it into fuel oils or feedstock to make new plastics.Basically, currently all we do is we make a hydrocarbon soup and then we distill that out at different temperatures,so the higher temperatures the waxes separate out, then we cool it a bit more,and the heavy oils then we call it, a bit more the light oils, and then the rest comes out.It’s naphtha, the gases that don’t condense out.We actually uses the fuel for the process.Their process is creating a heavy fuel oil that works for marine vessels.We call it a clean crude, because it has very little sulfur in it, in fact almost none,which certainly also fits with the new regulations for marine fill,where they’re asking for much lower sulfur around the world.So it’s a very valuable product.
这家名为“回收技术”的公司正在分解塑料，然后将其转化为燃料油或原料，制造新的塑料。基本上，目前我们做的是使烃化水，然后我们在不同温度下提炼，较高温度下可以分离出蜡，然后我们将其冷却，然后是重油，然后是轻油，然后是其他物质提炼出来。石脑油就是那些没有冷凝的气体。我们在这个过程中实际上使用燃料。这一过程是制造一种适用于船舶的重燃料油。我们称其为清洁原油，因为它含有很少的硫，事实上几乎没有，这当然也符合海洋填充物的新规定，世界各地的海洋填充物都要求较低的硫。所以这是一个非常有价值的产品。

Right now the firm is recycling about 7,000 tons of plastic a year but says it can quickly ramp up.We are designing to a four-day installation.We will basically come in six ice-free containers which will stand on end clip together and we plug in play mode and the intent is to be up and running within four days.So this is definitely not a refinery concept.
目前，该公司每年回收约7000吨塑料，但表示可以迅速增加。我们正启动一个“4天安装”计划。我们将会有6个不结冰的容器被固定在一起，然后启动运行模式，目的是在4天内启动并运行。所以这绝对不是提炼厂的概念。

This is much more a piece of stand-alone industrial equipment.The company has set the ambitious goal of selling 1300 of their recycling units around the world during the next decade,and expect they will be able to recycle 9 million tons of plastic each year.
这更像是一个独立的工业设备。该公司设定了一个雄伟目标，即在未来十年内在世界各地销售1300台回收设备，并预计每年能够回收900万吨塑料。

Kevin Enix VOA news.
美国之音新闻记者Kevin Enix报道。